Month: August 2026

Rakhi Season Turns Into a Race Against the Clock as Q-Commerce Rewrites Gifting Rules

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Raksha Bandhan planning has quietly moved from the calendar to the app drawer. What was once a purchase decision made weeks ahead, with rakhis picked out, sweets ordered, and courier timelines factored in, is now routinely settled the morning of the festival. Consumers are trading catalogue browsing for a ten-minute search-to-doorstep cycle, and retailers across …

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From Sabai Strands to Self-Reliance: The Women Weaving Baripada’s New Story

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Beside the forests of Similipal, in the quiet town of Baripada, a new story of women’s empowerment is taking shape. In villages surrounding Baripada, women are turning a humble local resource into a growing livelihood opportunity. Supported by the Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM) and strengthened through Self Help Group (SHG) initiatives, women from villages such …

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Steeped In Success: How Indian Tea Is Winning the Coffee Wars

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Walk down any urban high street in India today and the coffee chains seem to be everywhere — sleek, air-conditioned, Instagram-ready. It would be easy to assume tea, the country’s oldest beverage habit, is losing ground. The numbers say otherwise. The retail reality tells a different story. Coffee’s visibility is a café-culture phenomenon, concentrated in …

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Inarra Atelier Opens Its First Flagship in Salt Lake, Kolkata — Lab-Grown Luxury Finds a Permanent Address

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Kolkata’s fine jewellery landscape has a new and distinctly modern entrant. Inarra Atelier, the luxury lab-grown jewellery maison founded by husband-and-wife duo Ashna and Mayank Poddar, has unveiled its first flagship boutique at Salt Lake, Sector 1 — marking the brand’s transition from a digital-first journey to a full offline retail experience. The 1,500 sq …

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The Giants of Bengal: Mohendra Dutt and Sons — India’s First Umbrella Maker, 143 Years and Counting

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In 1882, a music composer and distinguished Pakhwaj instrumentalist named Mohendra Dutt walked into a commercial premise on Harrison Road — today known as Mahatma Gandhi Road — in Kolkata, and quietly became the pioneer of umbrella manufacturing in India. That combination of artist and industrialist is an unlikely origin story. But it produced something …

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